This year our focus for reading is fluency. We will be using an IT tool (Audioboo) to record their progress. As a part of their learning, we are going to focus on ways to help each child read more fluently.They will be focusing on using punctuation, blends, chunks, expression etc to help with fluency and flow. The children will be dating and noting down the type of book they are reading and because it is recorded, they will be able to replay and critique their recordings, making comments about their learning online.
Fluency is defined as the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. In order to understand what they read, children must be able to read fluently whether they are reading aloud or silently. When reading aloud, fluent readers read in phrases and add intonation appropriately. Their reading is smooth and has expression.
Children who do not read with fluency sound choppy and staggered. Those students may have difficulty with decoding skills or they may just need more practice with speed and smoothness in reading.
Click on each child to listen to their reading/recording and follow their progress.
Term One Reflection: Go to your audio boo and make a comment by reflecting on how you did with your first reading? Teacher: Are there any areas you can improve on? For example, were you loud enough? Did you pause according to the punctuation? Did you emphasis and show expression in your reading? Term Two Task:
Activity: Read a piece of poetry given and focus on the suggestion(s) that was given in your feedback. You must also focus on the areas you suggested for yourself.
Poem Flying Home Towards sunset they gather by the hundred until the old elm brims with birds fluttering like leaves.
Then, strangely, as if the leader called 'Get ready now', all is still... Suddenly they're off! Dark streamers in the rosy sky.
This year our focus for reading is fluency. We will be using an IT tool (Audioboo) to record their progress. As a part of their learning, we are going to focus on ways to help each child read more fluently.They will be focusing on using punctuation, blends, chunks, expression etc to help with fluency and flow. The children will be dating and noting down the type of book they are reading and because it is recorded, they will be able to replay and critique their recordings, making comments about their learning online.
Fluency is defined as the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. In order to understand what they read, children must be able to read fluently whether they are reading aloud or silently. When reading aloud, fluent readers read in phrases and add intonation appropriately. Their reading is smooth and has expression.
Children who do not read with fluency sound choppy and staggered. Those students may have difficulty with decoding skills or they may just need more practice with speed and smoothness in reading.
Click on each child to listen to their reading/recording and follow their progress.
Term One Reflection:
Go to your audio boo and make a comment by reflecting on how you did with your first reading?
Teacher: Are there any areas you can improve on? For example, were you loud enough? Did you pause according to the punctuation? Did you emphasis and show expression in your reading?
Term Two Task:
Activity: Read a piece of poetry given and focus on the suggestion(s) that was given in your feedback. You must also focus on the areas you suggested for yourself.
Poem
Flying Home
Towards sunset they gather by the hundred
until the old elm brims with birds
fluttering like leaves.
Then, strangely, as if the leader called
'Get ready now',
all is still...
Suddenly they're off!
Dark streamers in the rosy sky.